Götz Reinicke wrote: > Am 22.08.12 15:01, schrieb Richard Reina: >> I have a simple perl script that every few hours pings the handful of >> machines on my LAN. Lately I've sometimes been getting >> >> ping of 192.168.0.1 succeeded >> ping of 192.168.0.7 succeeded >> ping of 192.168.0.5 FAILED >> >> This machine in question has been running Centos faithfully for about >> six years and no recent changes to it have been made. When I try and ping <snip> > Recently I was faced with a similar problem (cant ping a device from > time to time which was not touched for about two years...). My solution: > check the lan cabel. > > The system I had problems with had been standing in the sun behind a > window and the lan cabel was 'melting' and did not fit properly into the > adapter. Good thought! Could someone have moved non-computer hardware, like, say, a desk or chair, or there's been some utility work, and the cable run's impacted occasionally... or stepped on? mark _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos